In 2015, assistant editor-in-chief Long Zhenyang was placed under "political measures" for comments he made during the 2014 Hong Kong protests and regarding the demolition of churches in Zhejiang.

Since he has written a number of newsletters, argumentative writings, reports, biography and prose etc., he was given the title "Unique Journalist" by Deng Xiaoping in 1992.

Immediately after his graduation, he entered the Xinhua News Agency in the Guangdong branch, where he worked as a reporter, assistant director and vice-president.

The target reader groups include investors and business executives in both China and Hong Kong, mainly from the Pearl River Delta and especially the Special Economic Zones.

Employees of some Hong Kong companies which have based their businesses in mainland China, and politically-minded individuals with an interest in the HKSAR-PRC relation, are also an important target group.

Its worldwide readership includes people from Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, the US, Canada, Australia, UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Indonesia (starts 28 Sep 2009, officially issued), etc..

RTHK[8] Archived 21 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine and Breakthrough [9] have conducted surveys and questionnaires for Hong Kong readers and journalists in Year 1998 and 2001 respectively.

For example, many of the martial arts novels written by Jinyong(also known as Louis Cha) from the 1950s like "Sword Stained With Royal Blood"《碧血劍》in 1956, The Legend of the Condor Heroes"《射鵰英雄傳》in 1957 etc, were published as installments in the Hong Kong Commercial Daily.

HKCD also publishes various kinds of books, while most are in Chinese, including "The Last episode of Ten Colonels"《十大元帥大結局》、"The Mystery of Xiaoshan"《韶山之謎》、"The Last 28 days of Cultural Revolution"《文革最后的28天》、"Horror and Anti-horror"《恐怖與反恐怖》、"Human and Ghost"《人鬼神》、"Force of China"《中國力量》.

For its 30th anniversary in 1982 it published a book called "Knowledge of living" with useful information on health care, electrical appliances and useful telephone numbers in Hong Kong and Guangzhou etc..